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AI Work Assistants Require More Effort Than Expected, CIOs Say

Jun 25, 2024

AI work assistants, such as Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Gemini for Google Workspace, necessitate more effort than anticipated due to data...

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Algorithm Wrongly Flags 200,000 for Housing Benefit Fraud

Jun 23, 2024

A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) algorithm mistakenly flagged more than 200,000 UK housing benefit claims as high risk. Consequently...

AI-Enabled Fraud Schemes Reportedly Increasing Consumer Harm and Challenging Detection

Jun 22, 2024

AI tools, such as language models, voice cloning, and synthetic IDs, are being exploited by scammers to orchestrate increasingly convincing...

Unrestricted AI Avatar Tool Accidentally Released by TikTok Permits Recitation of Hitler Quotes and Other Harmful Speech

Jun 21, 2024

TikTok inadvertently released an unfiltered version of its AI digital avatar tool, enabling users to produce videos featuring avatars utteri...

Senior Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong Allegedly Misrepresented in Two Deepfake Videos on Foreign Relations

Jun 21, 2024

Two deepfake videos misled the public by falsely attributing comments on US-China relations and the South China Sea to Singapore's Senior Mi...

Instagram's Algorithm Reportedly Recommended Sexual Content to Teenagers' Accounts

Jun 20, 2024

Investigations by The Wall Street Journal and a researcher have reportedly uncovered a concerning issue with Instagram's AI-driven Reels alg...

Erroneous Declined Transaction Notification by PayPal AI Assistant

Jun 19, 2024

On July 13th, 2024, a user encountered an issue with PayPal's generative AI chatbot. The bot reportedly issued a declined transaction alert...

Leading AI Models Reportedly Found to Mimic Russian Disinformation in 33% of Cases and to Cite Fake Moscow News Sites

Jun 18, 2024

An audit by NewsGuard uncovered that leading chatbots, such as ChatGPT-4 and You.com’s Smart Assistant, mimicked Russian disinformation narr...

Tesla Reportedly in Autopilot Mode Hits Parked Police Vehicle in Fullerton, California

Jun 13, 2024

A Tesla vehicle, allegedly operating in self-driving mode, collided with a stationary police car in Fullerton, California. The incident occu...

Independent News Sites Flagged as Spam by Facebook's AI Moderation System

Jun 12, 2024

Facebook's AI moderation system inadvertently flagged and deleted authentic news articles from independent local publishers globally, impedi...

Purportedly AI-Generated Papers Are Alleged to Have Manipulated Scopus Rankings in Top Philosophy Journals

Jun 12, 2024

Three questionable journals, reportedly published by Addleton Academic Publishers, allegedly manipulated Scopus rankings by cross-referencin...

Auto Insurers Allegedly Are Surreptitiously Collecting and Scoring Driver Data

Jun 9, 2024

The insurance industry's alleged usage of AI and telematics raises concerns as data, often without explicit consent, influences insurance ra...

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.